A Turkish academic on hunger strike for nearly nine months to protest her dismissal after last year's failed coup has been released from jail. But a court granted her conditional release and she was freed late Friday from a hospital where she was in custody. Semih Ozakca, a hunger-striking teacher who was released from prison at an earlier hearing, was acquitted. They are among more than 100,000 civil servants dismissed under the state of emergency declared in Turkey after last year's coup attempt. The two said they would continue their hunger strike until they are reinstated.

Source: ABC News December 02, 2017 08:48 UTC